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    x86/xen: attempt to inflate the memory balloon on PVH · 38620fc4
    Roger Pau Monne authored
    When running as PVH or HVM Linux will use holes in the memory map as scratch
    space to map grants, foreign domain pages and possibly miscellaneous other
    stuff.  However the usage of such memory map holes for Xen purposes can be
    problematic.  The request of holesby Xen happen quite early in the kernel boot
    process (grant table setup already uses scratch map space), and it's possible
    that by then not all devices have reclaimed their MMIO space.  It's not
    unlikely for chunks of Xen scratch map space to end up using PCI bridge MMIO
    window memory, which (as expected) causes quite a lot of issues in the system.
    
    At least for PVH dom0 we have the possibility of using regions marked as
    UNUSABLE in the e820 memory map.  Either if the region is UNUSABLE in the
    native memory map, or it has been converted into UNUSABLE in order to hide RAM
    regions from dom0, the second stage translation page-tables can populate those
    areas without issues.
    
    PV already has this kind of logic, where the balloon driver is inflated at
    boot.  Re-use the current logic in order to also inflate it when running as
    PVH.  onvert UNUSABLE regions up to the ratio specified in EXTRA_MEM_RATIO to
    RAM, while reserving them using xen_add_extra_mem() (which is also moved so
    it's no longer tied to CONFIG_PV).
    
    [jgross: fixed build for CONFIG_PVH without CONFIG_XEN_PVH]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRoger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240220174341.56131-1-roger.pau@citrix.comSigned-off-by: default avatarJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
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